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Knees cost Nadal a Wimby defense

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, June 19, 2009

Even as he rose like a bullet to the top of tennis, there was always an asterisk next to Rafael Nadal's name: *His knees. The very thing that drove him to the No. 1 ranking in the world -- his ambition, drive and unnatural intensity -- was also the subversive enemy. The wear and tear those heroic qualities visited on his knees, well, we could only guess at the cumulative effects. In the past, the only telling sign that his knees were routinely wracked with tendinitis was the loops of tape he ...

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